[LibWhacker]

Let me guess... The person “accidentally” trampled was white?

Because some people are savages, little better than animals, these Black Friday sales ought to be outlawed, just like shouting ‘Fire’ in a crowded theater is outlawed. They’re nothing more than an open invitation to riot, loot, and kill whitey.

[tobyhill]

Sick animals. Next they'll be blaming Bush because they'll claim that the death was caused by the “bad economy” and those “shoppers” were just trying to get in to get some food.

[Paleo Conservative]

This never happens with mail order shopping.

[Fred Hayek]

Exactly why I do not miss the NYC area.
“Get outta my way”
“I’m in your face”
“The world is my doormat. If you don’t like it, it’s YOU who has the bleeping attitude problem”.
As moonbatish the Twin Cities is, it’s nothing like NYC (but it’s getting there). But I still miss Texas.

[pgkdan]

Pretty much as I expected.

[ZULU]

THIS is the FACE of Urban New Yorkers.

Not ALL of them, but FAR TOO MANY of them.

[Domandred]

Wife just got of the phone with her sister and step father in Seattle. Both were saying the CEO of walmart should be jailed for manslaughter because they had a black friday sale so good someone was trampled.

Yea they’re moonbats. Wife hung up on them.

[Theodore R.]

Such is the age of Obama, and the American people knew what they are getting into. They are the culprits.

[RummyChick]

smashed through windows????????????

Surely Walmart could not be expected to see that as a foreseeable event..but this they surely would

http://www.wavw.com/cc-common/news/sections/newsarticle.html?feed=244038&article=4651903

They could have handed out numbers like I have seen other stores do for the hot items.

I can’t imagine Queens if there is a food shortage...or anywhere in the vicinity.

[mnrep]

When I first heard of this, I couldn't help but relate it to Ramadon (sp), you know those nutty muzzies part of their blood cult is to stampede each other in their equally nutty traditions. I understand no one was buried to their neck in sand so the rabid masses could throw rocks at their head though. That's what happens when your local Wal Mart isn't facing mecca. Darn.

[kcvl]

Some shoppers who had seen the stampede said they were shocked. One of them, Kimberly Cribbs of Queens, said the crowd had acted like “savages.” Shoppers behaved badly even as the store was being cleared, she recalled.

“When they were saying they had to leave, that an employee got killed, people were yelling, ‘I’ve been on line since yesterday morning,’ ” Ms. Cribbs told The Associated Press. “They kept shopping.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/29/business/29walmart.html

[Wuli]

No surprises.

THIS is what our politics has become - the mob mentality; the media created virtual mob.

[lewislynn]

The "blitz" sign explains it all.

[dajeeps]

I just thought I’d share my funny Wal-Mart experience that I had yesterday. It wasn’t so funny when it was happening, but now it seems quite commical.

I was quite a calamity jane in there. When I first got there I headed over to the beverage container recycling area and I accidently put a plastic bottle in the glass machine. It gurgled and whined for about a minute and then started souding the alarm. Yes, I had broken the machine. So with a little embarrassment, I went and informed the management that I had broken the machine so they could get someone to fix it.

While I was in there I picked up a 5’x8’ area rug that was a bit too big for the cart. I did fine at navigating that thing around the store until I got through the checkout and to the exit where I lost control of the cart and the rug bumped the door clear off the track. I had to go back yet again to tell the management that I had broken something.

I bet the next time they see me coming they will lock the doors and put the “CLOSED” sign out. LOL

[pterional]

A crowd outside your door that large you know is going to be a problem. If I was an employee I would had called the police to dispersed the crowd prior to opening the store and handed out tickets to the first 100 hundred people in line . The rest would have to go home or go to jail.

[Coleus]

I heard a lady on tv call them savages, she was right..

 

here is the link of the stampede.

[TheBattman]

So-— this whole “doorbuster Black Friday Sale” things started decades back - with stores advertising a handful of loss leader products in an effort to get customers in the door. I also remember some of the early such sales (still before stores started having these special opening times in the wee hours of the morning for these stupid “sales”). And I remember women going in and beating each other up for Cabbage Patch Dolls.

I also remember thinking at the time, even though I was relatively young, this really reflects the “spirit of Christmas”....

And as time has marched on - and each year, we hear of some sort of skirmish or bad behavior - the stores just make a bigger and bigger deal out of these Black Friday Doorbuster deals... feeding the fire.

Personally, I think the whole concept is a very bad idea - it just fosters such bad behavior. And add to that how it really causes me to just want to skip the whole commercialized Christmas. Send out cards to our immediate family and our circle of friends, have a nice family get together - with singing, good food, and fellowship. Thank God for the real reason for the season - the ultimate gift of His only begotten Son - Make a special donation to your church, a missionary, or your favorite charity. Get with your children and read the nativity story from your family Bible.

[x]

I thought Wal*Mart stuff was cheap enough as it is.

If you're going to get in line all night for a sale, why all pick that store?